English

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Etymology

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From complicit +‎ -ness.

Noun

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complicitness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being complicit.
    Synonym: complicity
    • 2018, Kevin Carey, Cross Purposes: Reflections for Good Friday, Sacristy Press, →ISBN, page 126:
      The central theme of these meditations is our complicitness in the pain and death inflicted on Jesus by the fanatical religious and barbaric secular authorities and we can recognise that complicitness in the contemporary world of casual violence.